What if?

[technoguy33]

I was thinking.... What if NACA/NASA had continued the MISS (Man In Space Soonest) program had continued and put a man in space with the X-15. How would it be now? How do you think human spaceflight would be affected. Would astronauts all be riding on bomber/ missile launched rocket planes? Who knows?

--technoguy33

[Guest GroundHOG-2010]

I was thinking.... What if NACA/NASA had continued the MISS (Man In Space Soonest) program had continued and put a man in space with the X-15. How would it be now? How do you think human spaceflight would be affected. Would astronauts all be riding on bomber/ missile launched rocket planes? Who knows?

--technoguy33

Thanks for an idea for my game!

On topic, they might be, but adventally, you couldn\'t make a plane big enough for the launch to the moon.

[Monkthespy]

Thanks for an idea for my game!

On topic, they might be, but adventally, you couldn\'t make a plane big enough for the launch to the moon.

If you think Kerbal, you might be able to use a rocket to bring the plane to the moon.

[Altair1371]

If you think Kerbal, you might be able to use a rocket to bring the plane to the moon.

Or, maybe a plane to take a rocket to take a plane! Genius!

[Monkthespy]

Or, maybe a plane to take a rocket to take a plane! Genius!

Altair is genius man!

[Altair1371]

Altair is genius man!

Almost there! Boosters (I\'d say about 50) that lift a rocket. It launches a rocket. Rocket detaches space plane and becomes transit point between Earth and Moon. Space plane goes to Moon and crashes killing all inside land on the surface. Rocket lifts off, and becomes transit node in lunar orbit. Second space plane returns to Earth. You now have commercial colony and transit stations!

SO. MUCH. GENIUS.

[technoguy33]

I like your style, man. You could theoretically take a space plane to mun the moon, but you would have to have one damn big rocket to lift it AND a lander. You could also use a space shuttle like plane and store the living module and lander inside the payload bay if you wanted to. Probably about as smart as using a Gemini. =P